China Central Television is coming to Freeview HD, but not as a broadcast television channel. It will have its own channel number, but it won't be broadcast in the UK or subject to UK broadcast rules.
CCTV is taking advantage of the Vision IPTV platform, which started supplying internet video streams to UK Freeview HD boxes in …

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Ropey release

Not currently working for many according to DigitalSpy forums.

Tested on my Humax HD & HDR T2 and they dont work so far either.

I realise it might be difficult for them to get this working on so many boxes as they are the first, but surely they will have built a concept portal first? It seems like they are building as they go on this one. (I can tell by pressing green then blue and viewing the debug messages they have built in).

Launch was meant to be in late September.. Its November next week! lol

Sorta works for me

I've got a 1 year old Panasonic (TX-L37D25BA) and it eventually starts the Sports Tonight replay on 112 but I get picture jumps & freezes. From what I've heard about Panasonic's update policy for older sets, that's probably as good as it'll get, though that might also be server/network issues. But since I won't be watching CCTV that's really no problem. If it ever had any free, hot, must-watch programming I might be less disinterested, but what is the probability of that?

Since you ask...

I'm not finding the transition to IPTV at all.

Life's too short. I have several dozen channels already and the idea of hooking myself up to another few hundred in a desparate attempt to find something worth watching is a non-starter, so I'll move to IPTV when they switch the normal transmitters off.

Advertisers *might* take note, except that they almost certainly aren't reaching me even on normal telly either because I just fast-forward or doze through them.

Remind me again? Who's financing all this? Is anyone in the TV industry making any money? Surely they are all just haemorrhaging cash with absolutely no prospect of ever getting it back?

It'll never work for me...

I can't even stream a simple youtube vid set at 240p without it stuttering to a halt every 5 seconds. No chance of me getting IPTV to work. I suppose it'll be a nice addition if you're chinese and live somewhere that has a decent internet service.